Quotes By Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.